On 27 October 2016 at 17:36, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> wrote: > Peter Maydell, on Thu 27 Oct 2016 17:14:52 +0100, wrote: >> On 27 October 2016 at 16:58, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> wrote: >> > Gerd Hoffmann, on Thu 27 Oct 2016 17:55:47 +0200, wrote: >> >> /home/kraxel/projects/qemu/ui/curses.c:627:18: error: universal >> >> character names are only valid in C++ and C99 [-Werror] >> >> case L'\u23bd': >> > >> > Another way could be to assume unicode encoding of wchar_t characters >> > (which looks very reasonable to me) and just write "case 0x23bd:". >> >> Does this still work if you're using curses on mingw32? > > Windows' wchar_t uses unicode encoding, yes (and its limitation to 16bit > doesn't pose problem to the values we care about).
On the other hand apparently FreeBSD and Solaris have a wchar_t whose encoding is locale-dependent: http://www.thecodingforums.com/threads/wchar_t-is-useless.806149/#post-4398211 thanks -- PMM
